American Masters explores fifty years of folk legend and human rights activist Joan Baez.

Watch fourteen outtakes from Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound, including performances by Joan and interviews with Joan and Steve Earle.

Learn more about one of folk music's most influential figures.

Filmmaker Mary Wharton writes about the making of Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound.

In the summer of 1958, Joan Chandos Baez, a 17-year old high school graduate (by the skin of her teeth) moved with her family from Palo Alto to Boston...